For a full week, the sky fills with more than 500 brightly colored balloons, which launch en masse many mornings from the 360-acre Balloon Fiesta Park in northern Albuquerque. Festival attendees ...

Crews equipped with high-definition cameras captured the mass ascensions, thrilling competitions and interesting characters of the 2008 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Against the ...

Guests from all over the world come to Albuquerque to celebrate ballooning. From its modest beginning in 1972 with 13 balloons launching from a shopping mall parking lot, Balloon Fiesta has grown to ...